Saturday, October 22, 2011

Australia Doesn't Exist

The continents of the world: Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, South America, and Oceania...

If Oceania doesn't sound familiar to you are more than likely from the United States. And I just want to throw this out there, but the continent of "Australia" doesn't exist! Please save yourself from sounding like an idiot and kindly refrain from making such a horrendous mistake. The actual name off the continent is Oceania. And to those who disagree with me, I am pretty sure someone FROM the continent would know are from. When I first heard about the phantom continent of Australia I was deeply confused. When I figured out that the maps which are distributed in the United States are actually... mislabeled I was shocked and kinda disturbed. Now I'm trying to be as PC as possible, but this actually annoys me a lot, so please have a little understanding.

I get that Australia is the largest land mass in Oceania, but really? I feel like Americans should be given a little credit here... they kinda learn about 50 states AND have to spell Massachusetts... I mean seriously? that is not an easy word to spell! I'm more than sure that actually giving the correct name of a continent is not too difficult to grasp. Whatever the reason, if you try to tell me I am from Australia, I will be highly offended. I am not from Australia, have never been there, and probably will never go there in the future. If it does continue, I may just say that North America is named Canada...  

2 comments:

  1. Hah.

    I think you'll find that Australia is a continent sweetie.

    Oceania is a region.

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  2. I take it you are from the United States? Lol. Pretty much the rest of the world calls it Oceania, and the "region" you are probably thinking of is Australasia (a trade region) :)

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